"He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander."
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"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
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"History is written by the winners."
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"I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get."
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"Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues."
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"God is on the side with the best artillery"
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"Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing."
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"Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment."
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"Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost."
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"Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen."
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"The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind."
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"I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win."
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"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon."
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"As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life."
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"To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty."
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"How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death."
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"In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals."
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"I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me."
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"On victory, you deserve beer. On defeat, you need it."
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"Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all."
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